Delicious

**Overview**: del.ici.ous is perhaps the most well known and heavily subscribed social bookmarking service, and the sheer number of people contributing to its extensive folksonomy (A **folksonomy** is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content ; this practice is also known as **collaborative tagging**, **social classification**, **social indexing**, and **social tagging**.) makes it a powerful tool for anyone looking to tap into social bookmarking. **Bookmarking system**: del.icio.us uses tags which users apply to websites by clicking on a button that they install into their browser when they sign up. Every time a user wants to tag a site, they click on their del.icio.us button, and the site is added to their personal list and the del.icio.us library. By using common tags it is therefore possible to make tagged pages easily recoverable by other users. Recipes might be tagged by their ingredients, for example, or presentations by their content type. [|History of Delcious] Delicious allows a user to discover, save, organize and share information that I find online  del.icio.us is a social bookmarking web site which enables you to   **bookmark** links you want to return to Read more: []
 * share** links with students, parents, family, friends, teachers, team members and people who share common interests
 * discover** new links via common tags
 * promote** content — your own
 * organize** your bookmarks to reflect relationships between them — without the confines of folders
 * access** your bookmarks from any web browser/computer

Delcious is a social bookmarking website. The primary purpose of delicious is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. ** del.icio.us ** is a collection of favorites – yours and everyone else’s. You can use del.icio.us to:
 * __What is del.icio.us?__ **
 * ** Keep ** links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, recipes, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.
 * ** Share ** favorites with friends, family, coworkers, and the del.icio.us community.
 * ** Discover ** new things. Everything on del.icio.us is someone’s favorite — they’ve already done the work of finding it. So del.icio.us is full of bookmarks about technology, entertainment, useful information, and more. Explore and enjoy.

**del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website** — the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders. You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. You can even browse and search del.icio.us to discover the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved — which is made easy with tags. ** __What can I use del.icio.us?__ ** Here are examples of things you can do with saving bookmarks on del.icio.us:
 * ** Research ** - Writing an article? Researching an individual? Use del.icio.us to keep track of all the source materials and commentary that you find online.
 * ** Podcast ** – Want to hear some great podcasts? Want to post their own podcasts?
 * ** Linklog ** - Save bookmarks to interesting websites and add a bit of commentary to create a lightweight link-log. This would be great use in a classroom, where the teacher having already completed the research can post all the great sites and offer the students a blurb on each.
 * ** Collaboration ** - Friends, coworkers, school classes, and other groups can use a shared account, special tag, or their del.icio.us networks to collect and organize bookmarks that are relevant — and useful — to the entire group.

**del.icio.us has several advantages: **
 * 1) you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you’re at home, school, at work, in a library, or on a friend’s computer.
 * 2) you can share your bookmarks publicly, so your friends, coworkers, and other people can view them for reference, amusement, collaboration, or anything else. (Note that you can also mark bookmarks on del.icio.us as private — only viewable by you — if you like.)
 * 3) you can find other people on del.icio.us who have interesting bookmarks and add their links to your own collection.

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**HOW TO USE DELICIOUS**
 * You can search Delicious for links on a subject of interest, without logging in. This is a useful way of finding resources that are popular on a given topic (rather than say searching for them in Google), as you will see the number of times the link has been saved. The best resources will therefore rise to the top.
 * You can store your own bookmarks online, and mark any that you wish as "private". To do so you will need to have an account on Delicious. When you sign up you can also install two buttons for your browser toolbar, so that you can quickly bookmark them when you are moving around the web. Simply add a web page to Delicious by clicking the "tag" button on the toolbar and enter the details in the box that opens.
 * You can share your bookmarks with others by giving people the link to your public bookmarks, e.g. __[|http:/ /delicious.com/username.]__ For more information about sharing, take a look at the Delicious Guide to Sharing Bookmarks
 * You can create a library of links by agreeing on a **tag** that you and others will use, so that they will appear together. You will then need to subscribe to that tag
 * You can access Delicious on your mobile. Delicious Mobile enables you to sign into your account and browse your bookmarks, tags, inbox, and other data. You can also browse popular and recent bookmarks and tags from the Delicious community : m.delicious.com

= = Then you can network with other people to share your bookmarks and see their bookmarks.

[|Del.icio.us Tutorial] by Janetta Garton -pdf file

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Tutorial on how to sign up for delicious (//[]//) - how to create a bookmark and add tags

Del.icio.us is a Website that allows you to save your bookmarks and retrieve them from any computer, share your links with anyone, search other user's links, subscribe to their tags and network with other del.icio.us users.

The Web is a big place, full of new and interesting things to discover. The problem is finding the good stuff and keeping track of it all. This is where Delicious can help. Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. Delicious also shows you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, their search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find "tasty" new bookmarks from people like you.

All of your stuff in one place. You can get bookmarks from any computer, anytime, anywhere.

Are you having a hard time keeping track of all the interesting Web pages you find? Would you like access to your bookmarks from any computer?

Delicious keeps all of your bookmarks in one place so you will never lose track of your bookmarks again. You can get to your book marks from any computer, whether you are at home or school.

Tag your bookmarks, instead of using folders.

Tags are simply words you use to describe a bookmark. You make up tags when you need them and you can make as many tags as you would like. For example, all the bookmarks you tag with funny will automatically by placed in the funny collection. Since tags work the same way for everyone, you can also check out other people's funny bookmarks.

You can search for tags.

Do you like to share cool or funny websites with your friends? Or do you know people who are always finding interesting stuff?

See the most popular bookmarks for any tag.

Do you ever wonder what's hot right now or the Web? Or are you looking for the most popular websites on a specific topic?

The home page shows you the hottest bookmarks on delicious right now. You can also explore what's hot for any particular topic by checking out the most popular bookmarks for any tag. Delicious has a little bit of everything, from the best programming tips to the most popular travel sites.

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Use the button on your browser to bookmark the link. Fill in the information on the posting interface: URL, description, notes, tags. • URL – filled in for you (but you can edit) • Description – filled in for you with title of page (but you can edit) • Notes – Let others know (or remind yourself) why you saved the link. What was so remarkable about it? How can it be used? • Tags – del.icio.us has suggested tags, including those that you commonly use as well as those that are most popular throughout the site. You can also tag the link to share with others in your network. Links are saved in reverse chronological order, similar to a blog.
 * Bookmark a Link**

Strengths:

 * 1) No cost to open an account.
 * 2) No matter where you go, you can access all of your bookmarks.
 * 3) Allows you to categorize bookmarks by multiple tags.
 * 4) Can import current bookmarks from Safari / Internet Explorer.
 * 5) Can choose to make bookmarks public or private.
 * 6) It is an easy way to share and record information since you can bookmark sites with links to other sites.
 * 7) Able to network with other users to share bookmarks and notes.
 * 8) Able to bundle tags so searching for sites is easier and more efficient.
 * 9) Easy to rename and delete tags.
 * 10) Networking does not have to be reciprocal.
 * 11) Able to search within tags.
 * 12) Can organize and remember bookmarks more flexible than folders.
 * 13) Great to use if you have a work computer and a home computer - or if you get a new computer - you don't have to transfer favorites.
 * 14) Web browsing by people rather than a search engine, easier to find items of interest

Weaknesses:

 * 1) When saving bookmarks, numbers such as 5.1, 5.12 are not listed in numerical order.
 * 2) Controlling your tags can be overwhelming so keep it usable for yourself.
 * 3) It may take a long time to import your bookmarks.
 * 4) Allows both capital and lower case tags, making it more likely to create redundant tags.
 * 5) Sign up for students and teachers is cumbersome. They must create a yahoo id which will give students and teachers a yahoo email.
 * 6) Delicious will not create student accounts to bypass the yahoo id issue.
 * 7) School systems may block access to Yahoo login.
 * 8) Many links that are no longer available remain on the bookmark site and have to be manually removed by the author.

Opportunities:

 * 1) Brings all of your bookmarks together in one place. Collect them using tags that put them in similar categories together.
 * 2) Ability to network with people around the globe to share information.
 * 3) Encourages you to revisit and organize ALL your existing bookmarks, maybe even delete a few.
 * 4) You can take advantage of someone else's research thus reducing time spent looking for information/related websites.
 * 5) Easily gauge a site's popularity by viewing the number of users who have linked to it.
 * 6) You can collaborate with class or group using a shared account, special tag or networks to collect and organize bookmarks that are relevant & useful for your class or group.
 * 7) I set up safe sites that I allow my students to use when they have finished classwork, sites that I want them to practice with for Math, for example.
 * 8) Separate classes of students researching the same topics are able to share and build on common links, building a community within a school where students don't get to see each other or interact socially.
 * 9) Assist students in the development of research skills
 * 10) Comment on and describe useful websites

Threats:

 * 1) Some tags may not be appropriate.
 * 2) Sharing personal sites on the internet might not be encouraged.
 * 3) This is a new tool and not familiar - may take a while to get comfortable using it.

=IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM - for teachers=
 * Create a list of student-safe links that your students can use for a specific research project.
 * Teachers can share links with their students and other teachers.
 * Families can create and share bookmarks to plan trips or to save all the websites that they use to pay bills.
 * Students can share their favorite websites and this saves valuable time when doing a unit, collaborative projects, term papers, etc., retrieve them from any computer and easily site them.
 * Put this on your Shorecrest webpage so that parents and students who visit can link to resources.
 * Create an individual tag for each class and sites and resources they might need through out the year (ex. eng101-lksw)
 * Create a tag specifically for your parents to pass on resources they might be interested in (ex. Mrs.W-parents)
 * [|Lesson plan] for introducing del.icio.us in the classroom
 * Run a feed of your class tagged sites on your class blog or wiki for students to share sites for a project
 * Create tags for students' interests based on student surveys, put student links onto a webpage categorized under interests, and create a school, district, country-wide pen-pal project where students can interact with other students who share their areas of interest.

**What are tags?**
Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to your bookmarks on Delicious to help you organize and remember them. Tags are a little bit like keywords, but you choose them yourself and they do not form a hierarchy. You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like and you can always rename or delete the tags later. So, tagging can be a lot easier and more flexible than fitting your information into preconceived categories or folders. For example, if you save an article about how to make a certain kind of cake, you can tag it with recipes sweets yogurt or whatever other tags you might use to find it again. You don't have to rely on the designer of a system to provide you with a category for French cake recipes. You make up tags as you need them, and use the tags that make the most sense to you. This is great for organizing and finding personal data, but it goes even further when someone else posts related content using the same tags. You begin building a collaborative repository of related information, driven by personal interests and creative organization. For instance, to view everybody's bookmarks about sweets, visit [|delicious.com/tag/sweets]. To see the most popular items tagged as sweets, visit [|delicious.com/popular/sweets].